[systemd-devel] Needs help for on charging activation

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:21 PM, WaLyong Cho <walyong.cho at samsung.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to find best solution on our case. Our product is mobile device.
> But I don't think that is only problem of mobile device. That also can
> be problem of laptop. So, please comment to me.
>
> We have some of services are always running after system is started up
> as default. They don't need to be running always. They are just needed
> only charger is plugged in.
> So I thought lets only active them when only charger is plugged in.
>
> I thought two methods.
>
> method 1:
> Charger also can be detected by udev. So udev hardware activation can be
> used.
> I wrote below udev rules.
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ENV{POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW}=="1",
> TAG+="systemd", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="foo.service"

I guess the problem is, the .device unit is never stopped. Therefore,
when you unplug it, it will not be stopped, as the device is still
there.

You could try this:

SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ENV{POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW}=="1", \
TAG+="systemd", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="foo.service", \
ENV{SYSTEMD_READY}=1

SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ENV{POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW}=="0", \
ENV{SYSTEMD_READY}=0

It's not particularly nice, as other dependencies on the power-supply
device will now be borked. But as a hack it should work.

I cannot think of a better way to support udev-activation based on
attribute-changes. We never explicitly supported it. Hmm..

Thanks
David

> It looked working well. foo.service is only activated when charger was
> plugged in.
> But I have some of problems with hardware activation.
> I want to be stopped foo.service when the charger is plugged out. As I
> know, this is impossible with udev hardware activation.
> To do this, foo.service have to determine the charger state itself and
> if the charger is plugged out, it have to stop itself.
> And it is working only at the first time.
> After foo.service was activated, I stopped foo.service by "systemctl
> stop foo.service". And plug out and plug in the charger again. Then
> foo.service was not activated. (Is it normal? I did not try to find the
> reason. If you say it's a problem, then I will try to find.)
>
>
> method 2:
> We have another device daemon. Let's call that as deviced and its
> service name is deviced.service. deviced know about plug in/out of the
> charger.
> So, I made a new charging.target. foo.service have Wants= dependency for
> charging.target. (Installed on charging.target.wants.) And I added
> "BindsTo=charging.target" to foo.service.
> Then foo.service is activated well when the charging.target is entered
> to active state. And also deactivated when charging.target was deactivated.
>
> In this method, there are limitations what some of other daemon is
> needed and new charging.target is needed.
>
>
> Is there any more good way for this?
> I want to find best appropriate way.
>
> Thank you in advance for comment.
>
> WaLyong
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